Hope in the holler by Tyre, Lisa Lewis 

BTSB Prebound(Nancy Paulsen, 2018)

BTSB #: 896204 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.3 MG RC: 1.3 K-2 Lexile: 660

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Orphans - Fiction Grief - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Aunts - Fiction Adoption - Fiction Family life - Kentucky - Fiction Kentucky - Fiction

Summary: Upon her mother's death, Wavie Conley, eleven, must go live with a scheming aunt in the Kentucky town her mother left behind.

Lila and Hadley by Keplinger, Kody 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 514799 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.3 MG Lexile: 690

Genres: Family Life Animals

Subjects: Pit bull terriers - Fiction Dogs - Training - Fiction Retinitis pigmentosa - Fiction Blind - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction Sisters - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Anger - Fiction Kentucky - Fiction

Summary: Hadley is an angry girl: angry at her mother for embezzling money, angry at her estranged older sister, Beth, whom she has to live with while her mother is in jail, angry at having to move to Kentucky away from her friends, and angry at the world because she has retinitis pigmentosa and is slowly going blind; but then she meets Lila, a rescued pit bull who has not responded to anyone else--so if Hadley can train Lila, maybe the dog can get adopted into her forever home, and just maybe Lila can help Hadley deal with her own problems.